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PLOS Digital Health, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an unprecedented demand for interventions that can reduce disease spread without excessively restricting daily activity, given negative impacts on mental health and economic outcomes.
Prateek Gupta +16 more
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Pandemic Recessions and Contact Tracing [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023 Abstract We study contact tracing in a new macro-epidemiological model with asymptomatic transmission and limited testing capacity. Contact tracing is a testing strategy that aims to reconstruct the infection chain of newly symptomatic agents.
Leonardo Melosi, Matthias Rottner
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The impact of prior information on estimates of disease transmissibility using Bayesian tools [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The basic reproductive number (R₀) and the distribution of the serial interval (SI) are often used to quantify transmission during an infectious disease outbreak.
Archer, Brett N. +3 more
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Comparison of contact tracing methods: A modelling study [PDF]
Infectious Disease ModellingIntroduction: Contact tracing has been a key tool to contain the spread of diseases and was widely used by countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, evaluating the effectiveness of contact tracing has been challenging.
Joanna X.R. Tan +7 more
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Performance and utility of contact tracing for COVID-19 in the WHO South-East Asia Region: implications for future pandemic preparedness [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast AsiaSummary: Contact tracing was widely implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its real-world performance and utility for decision-making remain poorly understood.
Melanie Bannister-Tyrrell +12 more
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Contact tracing – Old models and new challenges
Infectious Disease Modelling, 2021 Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the 1980’s, modellers are developing a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find effective and efficient implementations, and to assess the effects of
Johannes Müller, Mirjam Kretzschmar
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Lessons for future outbreaks from successful contact tracing systems in Asia [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. Western PacificSummary: Countries around the world had utilized contact tracing to support public health responses to curb transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joanna X.R. Tan +5 more
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A Need for Contact Tracing Research
Delaware Journal of Public Health, 2020 Stephanie Shell
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5G and Beyond for Contact Tracing [PDF]
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has suddenly raised the need for technological solutions capable to trace contacts of people and provide location-based analytics. Several countries have adopted proximity-based (short- range) technologies, such as Bluetooth, which however appear hindered by deployment issues, security leakages, lack of reliability, and data ...
Giustiniano, D +4 more
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The influence of case factors and system factors on the timeliness of testing and contact tracing for COVID-19 in The Netherlands. [PDF]
Eur J Public HealthBosdriesz JR +12 more
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